Mr Surayud, now an adviser to King Bhumibol, had a reputation for cleaning up corruption in the armed forces.
Our nominee is a man with a reputation for cleaning up messes: Ken Feinberg, a lawyer who now specializes in victim compensation programs.
Ricci may have become an embarrassment to Barclays' new chief executive, Antony Jenkins, who has staked his reputation on cleaning up the bank after being promoted to replace Bob Diamond, who left in July just days after the bank received its £290m Libor fine.
Since then, I've developed an odd reputation for always cleaning up the dishes at family gatherings.
Mr Kumar has been credited with turning around what was once considered one of India's most backward states, boosting its infrastructure and cleaning up its reputation for corrupt politics.
"It's not good in terms of image, it's not good in terms of reputation, but in terms of cleaning up, everything we did in the last four years, this is good".
It is not good in terms of image or reputation, but in terms of cleaning up, this is good … It is not a nice day, but it is also a good day".
Mr. Prince immediately set to work repairing Citigroup's tarnished reputation by arranging legal settlements, cleaning up financial scandals in Europe and Japan, and trying to overhaul an unwieldy organizational structure that slowed communication within the company.
Cleaning up your online reputation, then, begins with seeing if it needs to be cleaned up in the first place.
All this leads Ronson to look for various anti-shame mechanisms, a search that brings him both to the door of Max Mosley, the Formula One boss who was shamed by a Sunday newspaper for his sexual peccadilloes but who came out fighting, and to a company that specialises in cleaning up online reputations.
